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toDay’s crossworD BY WAYNE ROBERT WILLIAMS

if your birthday is Aug. 28: This is your year of charismatic influ-ence. You will engage people, sell them on your services and prod-ucts, and make it fun for them to buy into your ideas and point of view. You’ll be a champion for your family in September. Your powers of attraction are espe-cially obvious in January. You’ll make a forever friend in February. Taurus and Scorpio people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 15, 9, 44 and 17. ARiEs (march 21-April 19). Novel, wild and adventuresome scenarios hold a strong attraction for you. If it’s unusual, you don’t want to hear about it, you want to experience it firsthand. TAURUs (April 20-may 20). You have, on several occasions, grace-fully extricated yourself from an uncomfortable or displeasing situ-ation. You’ll do it again soon. You will align yourself with a higher purpose and transcend. GEmiNi (may 21-June 21). You will equalize your family. This takes great powers of empathy, since at least one person will behave in a way that is difficult to understand. You’ll figure out where each is coming from and

help them meet in the middle.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You do not have to work hard to be the epitome of grace. You simply give each person the respect he or she deserves, and the result is that you have perfect manners and heaps of charm.

LEo (July 23-Aug. 22). There is a silent competition going on. You have an excellent strategy. It may seem to some that you are frater-nizing with the enemy. By doing so, the enemy becomes an ally.

ViRGo (Aug. 23-sept. 22). The ones who do you a favor want nothing in return. Or so they say. The difference between a loan and a gift is that one should be re-paid literally and the other should be repaid in a more creative way.

LiBRA (sept. 23-oct. 23). You have an ideal image in your head about how you want to look, but sometimes your body doesn’t seem to want to cooperate. You deserve to look nice anyway. In-vest in yourself.

sCoRPio (oct. 24-Nov. 21). Everyone gets disillusioned. But that doesn’t mean you have to stop believing. Try investing in illu-sions of your own weaving. Then

you will know what to expect and won’t be disappointed.

sAGiTTARiUs (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Look into the future (this Octo-ber, to be exact) and set an excit-ing goal. Daily action will get you there. And yes, it will be as good as you think it will be.

CAPRiCoRN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Should love be this much work? Getting into it was easy. Climbing out of love should be the hard part. But it doesn’t work that way. For love to live, you have to find new ways to keep falling.

AQUARiUs (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It may feel as though you’re not doing much, but in reality, it takes massive amounts of brainpower to sustain your current lifestyle and manner of being. Be sure to thank your body and mind for keeping up with you.

PisCEs (Feb. 19-march 20). To stay successful at this job, you’ll have to maintain your energy and love for the work. Find a person in similar straits whom you can look up to. You will be especially sus-ceptible to the encouragement of a Gemini.

horoscoPe by Holiday Mathis